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Fumbled keys and dirty words
Wipe the dew off the car and in the parking lot
Mocking daybreak songs of some punk who’ve got the nerve
Or maybe the worm
But it’s easier to get things done
Yeah it’s easier when you didn’t have last night
I only lost it for a night
‘Cause thinking turned to knowing there must’ve been something going on
Everyone tries for far to long
Everyone leaves
And when it’s raining and you’re drinking it’s still raining
Don’t you know?
It’s such a shame, such a shame that you went away
I’m only drinking, only drinking when it’s raining
From now on
It’s such a shame, such a shame that you went away
And as for last night
I only lost it for a night
‘Cause thinking turned to knowing there must’ve been something going on
Everyone tries for far to long
Everyone leaves
When it’s raining and you’re drinking it’s still raining
Don’t you know?
It’s such a shame, such a shame that you went away
I’m only drinking, only drinking when it’s raining
From now on
It’s such a shame, such a shame that you went away
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Good Luck Trying
03:44
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I got a one way ticket to a one horse town
Where the roads ain’t steady and the lights are burned out
I’m gonna ditch my troubles gonna find the sound of a lonely river, and lay low for awhile
A silhouette, dancing in the corner on a long night
I bet it’s pretty in the right light, but I can never really make it out
See I don’t really care anymore
I don’t think it’s fair anymore
I have my doubts
Knocked down, somewhere in the shadows of the pouring rain
Well I can’t remember the sound, I can’t remember my name
See I don’t really care anymore
What the hell do I know anymore?
With a ‘barely hanging on’, you turned around and said
This is the same old story I already know
It’s hard to tell now anymore but so it goes
Laying down in the backseat crying saying good luck trying
High fiving with bent back fingers
Still missing the point after all these years of lying, saying good luck trying
I don’t wanna spend my thirties on a bathroom floor
I don’t wanna spend a dime on this shit anymore
I don’t wanna break down alone
No, I don’t wanna to break down alone
I got a one way ticket to a one horse town
Where the roads ain’t steady and the lights are burned out
I’m gonna get you here get you here somehow
Help you find a way, help you find a way
This is the same old story I already know
It’s hard to tell now anymore but so it goes
Laying down in the backseat crying saying good luck trying
High fiving with bent back fingers
Still missing the point after all these years of lying, saying good luck trying
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Every Once In a While
03:16
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Every once in a while the calm will win out
Every once in a while the fear ain’t so loud
And I’m trying hard to figure this out
Hell, I could run with you plenty
But this is something more than I could handle
You know you’re not the only tired and lonely rusty soul
Now take me right back, take all that I have
Now take me right back, there ain’t anymore left
And I’m trying hard I’m trying so hard
Hell, I could run with you plenty
But this is something more than I could handle
You know you’re not the only tired and lonely rusty soul
Hope ain’t a constant, it’s just a timebomb ready to blow
This ain’t a sign at all
You think you’re dying, you got a long, long way to go
This ain’t a sign at all
Every once in a while the calm will win out
Every once in a while the fear ain’t so loud
What’s left there’s more to give and I’ll take up all the time
Cause I’m better off without you, I’m too scared to live without you
And I hope that this don’t bleed out the desire
Cause everybody else gets broken and tired
Every once in a while
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Drinks and a Dress
03:12
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So lost and pretty
She was drinks and a dress
Backlit by the city
She was cigarettes
And when she took her hand in mine like an hour from the beach
The sky looked kind of funny
There were no people on the streets
I guess we’re stumbling around in a hurricane
So tell a lie
Won’t you tell a lie?
Got all the time to waste in the world
Tell a lie
Won’t you tell another lie?
Got all the time to waste in the world
Some people they blow around like a hurricane
They’re all flashing smiles and pouring rain
Break up those I-10 miles with a straight-line shot from the passing lange
Oh throwing bottles in the sea
Some real patchwork scenery
Oh empty bottles, your cares, my believe
They’re all floating in the sea
Some people the blow around like a hurricane
They’re all pouring eyes and crashing waves
And on that bathroom stall, she offered it all and signed her name
So lost and pretty
She was drinks and a dress
Backlit by the city
She was cigarettes
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Buy Me Another Round
04:05
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Buy me another round
Top me off before I leave this town
My hands ain’t steady now
But I’m begging to leave
I’m achin’ to be
There’s a bar on the outside of town
Where we used to wash our problems down
Somewhere we can’t be found
Somewhere you couldn’t even begin to place
Oh you, you sure do got a lovely face
I’ll hold my breath, I’ll keep it tight
Whatever helps me sleep at night
We all got different aches
So buy me another round
I’m slowly, coming down
From a haunting, lonely sound
I’m slowly, I’m figuring out
That my hands ain’t that steady now
I got twelve hundred dollars in my pocket
And a hole to burn
You’ve got empty hearts forgotten
And some luck to learn
Now I could see that leaving in your eyes
That cold blank stare is no surprise
So hold your breath, just keep it tight
Whatever helps you sleep at night
Now tell me something, what does it
Take to come up with nothing
We all got different aches
So buy me another round, so buy me another round
I’m begging to leave
I’m aching to be
I’m begging to leave
I’m aching to be somewhere else
Instead of here just sittin’ by myself
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So tell me now
What’s the point of all of this?
If you got something, a better option, I’m all ears
Cause I can’t help
I can’t help but thinking it’s been a long time
Since I’ve held high any thoughts that don’t disappear
There ain’t no time for second guessing
Here we go again
Life’s too short so we’ll be up until the morning
Wondering what to do and where to begin
And I’ll sleep when I’m clever
Looks like I’ll be awake forever
If this van keeps rolling as much as your eyes we’ll get home fine
Cause we can’t wait long
We’re gonna die in this place
And I bet if we tried I still couldn’t hide the sadness on my face
There just ain’t time for second guessing
Here we go again
Life’s too short so we’ll be up until the morning
Wondering what to do and where to begin
Closing down your bars
Staring at the stars
Giving new names to constellations
And there’s always more
Than we bargained for
We are mostly still standing
We’re still here
We are still here
And until then
Here we go again
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Well it’s a great time to feel so alive
Sitting on a bench just waiting to die
Those last words are never enough
And then something went wrong with us
Well it’s imagining a direct flight back out east
And the way your boots slip on ice-covered streets
Spending all day waiting for a bus
Then something went wrong with us
Seems to me if you just keep on riding you won’t have to get off
To be so fatally directional and still feel so lost
Oh if I don’t care and you don’t care aren’t we just carrying on?
And when it’s cold as hell it’s how you lend me your coat
And it’s tired of this town, tired of growing old
And I’ll be the car if you’ll be the rust
And then something went wrong with us
Seems to me if you just keep on riding you won’t have to get off
To be so fatally directional and still feel so lost
Oh if I don’t care and you don’t care aren’t we just carrying on?
Well it’s counting on your fingers and moving to your toes
The times you felt tired, the times you felt alone
And every rest stop in all of Iowa
Well something went wrong with us
Well it’s a drawn out pause with nothing to say
And then feeling like you might do better in L.A.
Somehow those last words are never enough
And then something went wrong with us
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She said “can you focus on the snowy road?”
So when we get to speed see we will not need them at all
No matter where we have to go
And from the passenger seat she grips the wheel with her fist
And she pulls it towards and exit that doesn’t exist
Sometimes you know you just try and do what’s best
Oh for a Tuesday night
And what you call us, it’s all the same
We were Tennessee, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Kerouac, but what’s in a name?
She said she’d buy us another round if we can drink it neat
And she tilts her head to focus on her feet
Sometimes you know life will bring you to your knees
It was just another Tuesday night
And oh you caught me kneeling
For once in my life
And oh, caught me believing
That you were gone but still alive
We were listing things we wouldn’t miss
There were violent drives and long cold nights
And that gap - the gap between Thanksgiving and Christmas
Then she turns away and listens through the rain
Fixating on the distant sound of trains
Well pitter patter and howl and hum they all sound the same
Oh, your last Tuesday night
And it’s alright
That oh you caught me kneeling
For once in my life
And oh, caught me believing
That you were gone but still alive
But you’re still alive
Or was it just a lie?
Was it just a lie?
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Northern Town
04:27
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I grew up without knowing what I’d amount to
In the southern part of a northern town
And I gave up trying to find the parts
To hold myself together now
Already nervous when you called
This fumbling silence so crowded with vines on the walls
This sinking in through the sidewalk cracks says it all
Over my shoulder it ain’t getting any closer
It ain’t worth all my worrying
It’s a curse of getting older
Let’s get lost, let’s get out
Let’s drive forever with the windows down
It’s out of my hands
It’s out of my heart
What’s left to wonder when you’re worlds apart
Let’s give it up to second chances
Let’s live like we’ve never had the answers
Walking backwards all the time just to see what I’ve left behind
We stay up late building up fires in our minds
All my friends are four leaf clovers
And they all said hey just come over
Let’s get lost, let’s get out
Let’s drive forever with the windows down
It’s out of my hands
It’s out of my heart
What’s left to wonder when you’re worlds apart
Let’s give it up to second chances
Let’s live like we’ve never had the answers
I’m just an old typewriter
I’m just a sad failed actor
Counting down on my fingers
Until I can’t remember
The last thing you told me
We’d both be dead and lonely
There was a time our sense burned
Now that time is over
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Well I was trying to tie long distances to time
And rolling down windows to breathe
And still you close your eyes or point them at the sky
And believe, and believe, and believe
That the sun ain’t old
Don’t got that old disease
Did you fuck up your makeup
When you were praying for yourself?
Or did you toast to your savior, hatred, and good health?
Well is it your sweet release, or something about the meek?
Flying so high by denying gravity
Still I’m trying to tie long distances to time
And rolling down windows to breathe
Well you can close your eyes or point them at the sky
And believe, and believe, and believe
Teach them all about burning
And oh what is worse:
The total destruction, or inheriting of the earth?
In only six days of the week
Still all this misery
We’re so dead and brave in the land of the free
Still I’m trying to tie long distances to time
And rolling down windows to breathe
Well you could close your eyes or point them at the sky
And believe, and believe, and believe
Believe, and believe, and believe
That the sun ain’t old
That the sun ain’t old
And you’re not all alone in this world
And the sun ain’t old
That the sun ain’t old
That the sun ain’t old
And you’re not alone in this world
And you’re not all alone
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